Stephen Harris Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Australia

Enterprise Governance, Board and Risk Management Advisory ServicesEnterprise Governance: - We enable our clients to execute their strategies and drive sustained performance through a holistic view of how their organisation is governed. - We holistically assess the effectiveness, completeness and appropriateness of the organisation’s governance and the extent to which it is enabling or frustrating the organisation’s purpose, strategy and values, and the interplay between these elements.

Melbourne, Australia

Providing solution focused governance and company secretariat services. The main areas of focus are: - strategic and operational governance - company secretarial - projectsStrategic and operational governance includes reviews of existing governance arrangements and where required designing and implementing key governance processes.Company Secretarial activities include the design and implementation of end to end Board and Board Committee agenda planning, papers and meeting processes including mechanisms for ensuring all items are satisfactorily actioned.Projects include managing significant internal and external stakeholder engagements required by virtue of regulator reviews or ad-hoc transactions.

Texas, United States

Melbourne, Australia

Waverley

Providing governance consulting services

Providing governance consulting services

Melbourne, Australia

Over a number of years prepared Medibank Private Limited for its successful listing on the ASX including introducing and embedding professional governance processes.Re-engineered and refocused the end to end Board and Committee meeting and information flow processes to manage risk and maximise appropriate utilisation of director and executive resources.refocused the organisation's delegation of authority process to improve its effectiveness, efficiency and transparency within an appropriate control framework to redefine how decisions are made.Provided trusted governance advice to the Chairman, Directors, Executive Committee and Senior Management personnel.

Burnley, Melbourne

Established a world class, streamlined professional company secretariat function for all of General Electric's worldwide businesses with operations in Australia and New Zealand.Ensured that GE's major business projects, including acquisitions, divestments and internal restructures were provided with proactive and specialised secretarial services.

Melbourne, Australia

Was responsible for managing the Company Secretariat for WMC Resources Ltd for the 6 month period prior to its acquisition by BHP Billiton, including the role of Company Secretary for all 45 Australian entities and over-sighting the governance and compliance obligations for the overseas group companies.Managed the transition of the WMC Resources Ltd group Company Secretariat activities and entities into the BHP Billiton group.

Melbourne, Australia

Managed group accounting policies and all external financial reporting, for business unit and operational financial accounting, including the preparation of month end management accounts, annual financial statements, and other required ASX and US annual reports.Instigated and implemented a number of significant processes to streamline and improve the quality of the provision of accounting advice across the group, reduce the time frame for completion of the annual statutory financial statements, expedite the timely resolution of accounting issues and the up-skilling of accounting personnel.

Melbourne, Australia

Responsible for the management of all taxation affairs of WMC Ltd group, including: advising on the appropriate structure for contemplated transactions, ensuring maximisation of tax incentives/concessions and ensuring compliance with all relevant tax laws by identifying, communicating and implementing requirements.

Melbourne And Perth Area, Australia

During this time I was responsible for the management of the company's taxation matters for its Gold, Treasury, Petroleum, Nickel and Exploration Divisions.

Melbourne, Australia

Was responsible for all the Taxation matters for the company and subsequently the analysis and financial reporting to the company's US shareholders.

Melbourne, Australia

Was responsible for the provision of taxation advice and the management of a team of tax professionals providing corporate tax advice to a wide range of medium and large companies.Contributed significantly to ensuring consistency of tax advice across all Coopers & Lybrand (C&L) Australian tax personnel by providing the Melbourne input into C&L national technical weekly update distributed to all Australian tax personnel.